Apparel-shoe quarter-closure.



01M. DODSON.

APPAREL SHOE QUARTER CLOSURE.

APPLICATION FILED 001218, 1909.

Patented May 7, 1912.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH 60.. WASHINGTON. n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES M. DODSON, OF DES MOINES, IOWA, ASSIGNOR- OF ONE-HALF T0 H. W.PARKER, 0F DES MOINES, IOWA.

APPAREL-SHOE QUARTER-CLOSURE.

1,025,901, Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 18, 1909.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES M. DODSON, acitizen of the United States, residing at l tral portion of each e d ofthe body portion is a small circular raised portion 17, and the otherplate comprises a fiat body portion 18 Des Moines, in the county of Polkand State having two extensions 19 at its ends subof Iowa, have inventeda certain new and stantially at right angles to the body and usefulApparel-Shoe Quarter-Closure, of also having in each end a substantiallycirwhich the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a device of simple, durable andinexpensive construction designed to be placed in the quarter of anapparel shoe, below the shoe lacing for the purpose of holding thequarter closed when the lacing is drawn tight and to permit the quarterto be readily and easily opened when the shoe is unlaced above thequarter, for the purpose of providing an apparel shoe that can bequickly and easily applied to the wearers foot or removed therefrom, andthat will be neat and ornamental in appearance.

My invention consists in the construction of the closure device and itsarrangement and combination with a shoe, whereby the objectscontemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointedout in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 shows a top or plan view of an apparel shoe having myimprovement ap plied thereto, the dotted lines being used to indicateits position in a shoe. Fig. 2 shows an enlarged, detail viewillustrating the closing device detached. Fig. 3 shows an enlarged,detail view illustrating one of the plates, and Fig. 4 shows a like viewof the opposite plate.

eferring to the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference numeral10 to indictate an apparel shoe, of which the numeral, 11. indicates thepart termed the quarter. This is divided centrally in the ordinary wayso that the top and quarter will be open to receive the wearers foot.Above the quarter, the front of the shoe is provided with ordinaryeyelets 12 and lacing hooks 18 to receive the shoe laces 14:, and belowthe eyelets 12, I have provided the following device for holdingtogether the adjacent sides of the quarter. This device is composed oftwo sheet metal plates and two pieces of wire. One of the sheet metalplates comprises a body portion 15, having two extensions 16 at its endssubstantially at right angles to the body portion and in the cenculardepression 20, said depression being extended at 21 to the adjacent endof the extension 19, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The margins 22 of theplate 18 are bent upward at right angles to the plate all around exceptat the point side of the body portion 18 opposite from the part 23, Ihave provided an extension 24 on the margin overlapping the body portionand entering the space between the margins 23 as shown in Fig. 2. Twowires 25 are provided and each has 011 one end a coiled portion 26. Thiscoiled portion or loop is designed to encircle the raised portion 17,plate 15, and to lie inside of the circular portion 20 of the depressionin plate 18, and the parts 21 of said depression are made considerablywider than the wire so that each wire is permitted limited pivotalmovement and is firmly held against withdrawal from the plates.

In assembling the device I first place two wires on the roundedprojections 17, one on each plate, and then place the plates to getherwith the wires between them and I then fold the margins 22 over theplate 15, and finally fold the extension 24 over the plate 15.Obviously, all of this may be done by machinery and without hand work,and hence the device may be constructed very cheaply. I apply theclosure device to a shoe by placing it between the outer layer ofleather and the lining of the shoe, as shown in Fig. 1, and thensecuring it in place by rows of stitches 27 as shown in Fig. 1. Thewires 25 are preferably made of a material that will be suflicientlyrigid to hold the sides of the quarter together, and which may be bentby the operator to conform to the contour of the wearers instep so thatthe shoe may be accurately and closely fitted to the foot, at the pointwhere the quarter closure is applied.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a device of the class described, two wires, each having a loop atone end, and two plates connected with each other on opposite sides ofsaid wire loops, one of said marked 28, and on the plates being providedwith raised portions to enter eachloop, for pivotally connecting thewires with the plates.

2. In a device of the class described, two 5 wires, each having a loopat one end, and

two plates connected with each other on opposite sides of said wireloops, one of said plates being provided with raised portions to entereach loop, for pivot-ally connecting the wires with the plates, and oneof said plates being provided with extensions through which the bodyportion of the wires are passed, said extension being wider than theWires, tolimit the pivotal movement 15 thereof.

8. A device of the class described, comprising a plate having anextension at each end, substantially at right angles to the plate, araised portion in each end of the 20 plate adjacent to said extension, aplate having an annular depression in each end and also an extensionateach end, said extension being provided with a depression forming acontinuation of said annular depression, one plate also being providedwith marginal edges, designed to fold over the edges of the other plate,and also being provided with an extension to fold over the centralportion of the body of said other plate, and two wires, each beingprovided with a loop, said loops being placed between the said platesand lying within the depressions and encircling the raised portionssubstantially as and for the purposes stated.

Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 9, 1909.

CHARLES M. DODSON.

Witnesses MILDRED B. GOLDIZEN, MARY VVALLAGE.

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